NAICS 311351: Chocolate and Confectionery Manufacturing from Cacao Beans
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in shelling, roasting, and grinding cacao beans and making chocolate cacao products and chocolate confectioneries.

ExioML sector: Food products nec
Region: US | Year: 2022
Sector value added: 89575.9948089 M EUR | Employment: 1739.39005457 thousand persons
Sector GHG emissions: 19770480560.1 kg CO2 eq | Energy carrier net total: 607078.664081 TJ | Carbon intensity: 0.2207118168464445

Company: Chester A Asher Inc
In 1892, Chester moved to Center City, Philadelphia and officially founded Asher's Chocolate. Chester operated his small candy store near Independence Hall. Growing in size and popularity, he decided to move the business to Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1899. The company was originally marketed as “Asher's Candy”.